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Some people argue that the increased gap between rich and poor is caused (i)_____, which tends to favor those who are already wealthy because they have knowledge, skills, and access to information that the poor do not have; from the above perspective, the world is (ii)_____ into two groups, one able to exploit the system to its advantage, the other forced to suffer the negative effects of the new economic order.



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entirely by the bourgeoisie truncated
partly by globalization polarized
to a significant degree by demography desiccated
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Originally posted by evileyelive on 27 Apr 2019, 19:20.
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Re: Verbal question [#permalink] New post   27 Apr 2019, 19:31
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Sry I am still a rookie here, forgot to post the answer, which is CE. But I support AE
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Re: Verbal question [#permalink] New post   27 Apr 2019, 20:58
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evileyelive wrote:
Some people argue that the increased gap between rich and poor is caused (i)_____, which
tends to favor those who are already wealthy because they have knowledge, skills, and access to
information that the poor do not have; from the above perspective, the world is (ii)_____ into two
groups, one able to exploit the system to its advantage, the other forced to suffer the negative
effects of the new economic order.

A. entirely by the bourgeoisie D. truncated
B. partly by globalization E. polarized
C. to a significant degree by demography F. desiccated

Can anyone help explain this one please?
Cuz I am confused by the given answer.
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Hey, plz read the rules of posting. It will help you with a faster response

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Re: Some people argue that the increased gap between rich and po [#permalink] New post   28 Apr 2019, 00:32
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No worries evileyelive.

The most important thing is the will to learn and improve. I also strongly recommend you to read the use of the timer. https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/how-to-po ... tml#p32033

Back to the question.

Some people argue that the increased gap between rich and poor is caused (i)_____, which tends to favor those who are already wealthy

Tends clearly refers to the gap , which is increasing over time. From this is logic to infer that is not the middle class that acts to increase the gap but is a phenomenon. Only B could explain this action. So for the first blank is B the answer. Turns out, this makes the world divided into two main groups , so the answer is truncate which means just divide.

Polarized is exactly the contrary. Polarize means something the concentrate rather than divide.

Hope now is more clear to you.

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Re: Some people argue that the increased gap between rich and po [#permalink] New post   27 May 2019, 13:48
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No worries evileyelive.


Some people argue that the increased gap between rich and poor is caused (i)_____, which tends to favor those who are already wealthy

Tends clearly refers to the gap , which is increasing over time. From this is logic to infer that is not the middle class that acts to increase the gap but is a phenomenon. Only B could explain this action. So for the first blank is B the answer. Turns out, this makes the world divided into two main groups , so the answer is truncate which means just divide.

Polarized is exactly the contrary. Polarize means something the concentrate rather than divide.

Hope now is more clear to you.

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Hi, I have read your explanation.

You told to use Truncate- Truncate means to shorten in length or something

while Polarize means divide or cause to divide into two sharply contrasting groups or sets of opinions or beliefs.



How can you say that Truncate means divide and Polarize means concentrate?


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Re: Some people argue that the increased gap between rich and po [#permalink] New post   27 May 2019, 16:00
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Honestly, I do not know from which words you have inferred what you wrote but is not what I said.

The world, actually, is truncated in two main clusters and the reason, mainly, is the globalization.

Polarized means to concentrate. Here we do have a division between two poles.

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Re: Some people argue that the increased gap between rich and po [#permalink] New post   27 May 2019, 20:23
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Carcass wrote:
Honestly, I do not know from which words you have inferred what you wrote but is not what I said.

The world, actually, is truncated in two main clusters and the reason, mainly, is the globalization.

Polarized means to concentrate. Here we do have a division between two poles.

Hope this helps


I agree with globalization. But polarized actually means to be divided in two groups.
I think the answer is B and E.
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Re: Some people argue that the increased gap between rich and po [#permalink] New post   28 May 2019, 02:33
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Ambiguous questions. Both words could fit as well.

And there is a clear clue to choose between in a clear cut

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Re: Some people argue that the increased gap between rich and po [#permalink] New post   10 Jul 2019, 19:49
Is the correct answer B and E or C and E?
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Re: Some people argue that the increased gap between rich and po [#permalink] New post   11 Jul 2019, 04:47
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B and E. I have edited the OA's

which tends cannot refers to "degree". Not a good question.

I do not know why on this board we do have millions of good quality questions and overall the students focus always on the ambiguous/bad ones :roll:

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